Linux File & Folder Compression per Libor Benes (Dr. B)

🎯 Linux File & Folder Compression brings a clean, practical reference for all major Linux compression tools directly into your Firefox sidebar: tar, gzip, xz, zip, compress, zstd, 7z, pigz, bzip2, lz4.

Whether you're creating backups, packaging software, extracting archives, or writing deployment scripts — the right command is always available without switching tabs or searching the web.

🗂️ WHAT EACH ENTRY CONTAINS:
• Tool name with clear colored header.
• Short description of best use cases.
• Multiple ready-to-copy commands covering:
• Basic compression.
• High/maximum compression.
• Archiving entire folders.
• Keeping original files.
• Decompression.
• Listing archive contents.
• Advanced options and combinations.

🖥️ FEATURES:
🔎 Live search — Filter instantly across tool names, descriptions and commands.
📋 One-click Copy buttons for every command.
📊 Real-time command counter in the footer.
🌗 Automatic dark mode support.
🧹 Clean, compact and highly readable layout.

🔒 SECURITY-FIRST ARCHITECTURE:
✅ No data collection — explicitly declared in manifest.json.
✅ No telemetry or network requests.
✅ No eval() — safe, audited code.
✅ No innerHTML from user input.
✅ Input validation and length limits.
✅ clipboardWrite permission only.
✅ Flat file structure, no icons, minimal footprint.

🛠️ TECHNICAL:
• Compatibility: Firefox 140.0+ Desktop
• Resource Efficient - Very lightweight:
• Runtime Execution RAM Footprint: ~13 KB (core scripts: manifest.json + sidebar.html + style.css + script.js).
• Total Extension Download/Install Size: ~33 KB (including README.md).
• 100% client-side.
• No storage, no background scripts, no external resources.
• ⚠️ Desktop only.

🎯 Best for:
• Linux power users.
• System administrators.
• DevOps & SRE engineers.
• Developers and shell script writers.
• Students learning Linux.

Fast. Clean. Practical.